escape

escape

noun

Definition of ESCAPE

1

the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement <a daring prison escape>

Synonyms break, breakout, bunk [British], flight, getaway, lam, rout, slip

Related Words jailbreak; deliverance, liberation, redemption, release, rescue, salvation; close call, close shave, near miss

Near Antonyms captivity, confinement, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, internment; custody, detention, hold, holding, retention; endangerment, hazard, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, trouble

2

the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable <the reading of science fiction novels as an escape from boring reality>

Synonyms avoidance, cop-out, dodging, ducking, eluding, elusion, eschewal, eschewing, evasion, out, shaking, shunning

Related Words bypassing, circumvention, runaround, sidestepping, skirting; averting, deflection, obviation, precluding, prevention

Near Antonyms abidance, endurance, submission, toleration